Job description
Bid Manager - Full time - Permanent - Remote/Hybrid
This is an exciting opportunity for a Bid Manager to join our growing client. Reporting directly into the Head of Urban Mobility.
Our client is a global and award-winning company with over 800 employees worldwide, with 400 staff based at the UK offices in Leeds and Runcorn. They are a services company focused on keeping roads moving through electronic tolling, smart mobility solutions and the enforcement of mobility schemes.
Purpose of the Role:
Bid and Proposals activities:
- Implements proposal development process, provides leadership and establishes priorities for proposal and cross-functional teams, responsible for setting and improving the quality of submissions,
- Work with the Bids and Proposals, Business Development, Technical Solutions, and Operations teams to generate ideas and solutions to deliver winning tenders,
- Monitors proposal development performance against schedules and reports status to management,
- Ensure that bids and proposals are planned, delivered and submitted to critical deadlines adhering to the governance requirements of the company and in a professional manner,
Post Tender activities:
- Perform lessons learned reviews on submitted tenders to develop on existing processes as part of a wider continuing improvement process,
- Assist Product and Project Managers in mobilization of the project,
- Liaise with senior management and Business Development team on Price to Win and other strategic reviews of bids,
- Comply with internal governance during handover to Delivery and Operations,
General Support:
- Ensures that feedback is obtained from customers on both winning and losing bids and incorporates feedback as appropriate into process improvements and subsequent bids and proposals,
- Oversees the creation and maintenance of a bid library of high quality material to maximize efficiency of the bid process.
- Ensure all activities are completed in accordance with the company's approved processes. Comply with company Quality Management System and Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the company.
Who are we looking for?
- Experience of working in the tolling sector
- Resilient, practical and a self-starter; comfortable with working on their own and part of a team.
- Management of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Project management (planning & workload schedule, reporting, advancement, etc.),
- Organisation and management of offer reviews.
- Knowledge of commercial, finance and market related requirements for tenders.
- Technology industry experience.
- Excellent and confident communicator.
- A good all round team player, with excellent analytical and decision making skills.
- Embraces Change and workplace diversity.
Benefits
- Salary up to 55,000pa depending on experience
- 23 days' holiday plus statutory bank holidays
- Company pension scheme up to to 6% matched
- 12.5% discretionary bonus based on personal and Company objective achievement
- Private Health Insurance
- Medicash Cover
Headway Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Headway Recruitment are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to a policy of diversity, equality and inclusion.